Lapel-button fastener.



W. FLWILKENING.

LAPEL BUTTON FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED was 2. I917.

1 ,282,509. Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

[12 V677 for TATES ATNT @FFTQ WALTER H. WILKENING, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO, A-SSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO CHARLES J. I-IEILEMAN, OF COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

LAPEL-BUTTON FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

Application filed June 2, 1917. Serial No. 172,550.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER H. WILKEN- ment in Lapel-Button Fasteners,

States of Amerand a resident of Cincinnati, in the of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have useful Improve of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lapel-buttons, or,

more particularly speaking,

vices for such buttons.

The object of fastening means to fastening dethe invention is to provide that will enable the button to be easily and safely snapped into place, as well as to be readily removed therefrom.

The details of structure device will be fully hereina of the fastening ft-er described in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which latter,

Figure 1 is an elevation of the button, showing its fastening device in cross-section and as applied to the fragment of a garment, such fragment being in cross-section and broken off at its opposite ends; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the fastening device, apart from the button Fig. 8, a cross-section of the outer member of said fastening device, used to snap the button ting the anchoring portion Fig. 4:, a plan view of the member shown plan view of the inner part of the fastener,

from which said anchoring ready for turning up the a face it being the one into place and omitof the fastener showing the outer face 111 Fig. 3; Flg. 5, a

of the anchoring but showing the blank portion is made, nchoring-p oints and Fig. 6, a plan view of the blank seen in Fig. 5 but of the opposite side thereof, and showing the said anchoring-points in their upturned position.

1 indicates the fragment of goods containing the buttonhole in which is to be placed for display.

2 indicates the button proper,

the device herein being preferably a fiat one and having a rearwardlyextending, central, threaded shank or stem 3, the latter extending through the buttonhole in the goods 1.

The device for fastening place on the goods 1 is members, an outer one the latter forming an the button 2 in composed of but two 4 and an lnner one 5, anchoring-member that does not turn or rotate but forms a bearing around which the member 4; m ay threaded shank 3 in snapping or like ready pushing forward of the fastening-member on such shank for use.

A series of teeth 7 extends or is bentforwardly and from the inner dished face of the disk 5 for anchoring-engagement with the goods of the lapel 1, when the button is in use, as shown in Fig. 1. These teeth 7 are made in the edge of a circular disk, as shown in the blank in Fig. 5 and then turned or bent forwardly 0r upwardly from the dished face of said disk as shown in Fig. 6, the slits 8 being made in the edge of the blank, as shown in Fig. 5, so that when the teeth are turned upwardly from the edge there will be arc-shape projections 9 left between the teeth. Projections 9 form a bearing on the periphery of the disk 5 that enages under an inwardly-turned flange or bead 10 on the outer disk 4 of the fasteningmember, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 2, so that the disk 4E is free to turn around the disk 5 for such purpose as may be desired.

The disk 4 is slightly conical to somewhat coincide with the dished disk 5 and it is made of resilient material, T-shape slits 11 being made therein and radiating from a central orifice 12 also made therein, as best shown in Fig. a, the segments of metal between the T-shape slits being sufficiently resilient to ermit them to ride freely over the threaded shank 3 when the fasteningmember is snapped or pushed forwardly into place on the inner face of the lapel 1 and with the anchoring-teeth 7 directly imbed- (led in the goods, whereby the button is securely held in place against accidental removal. The button can thus be instantly snapped into secured position on the lapel when once its shank has been passed through the button-hole usually provided in the goods and the fastening-member can be readily released by simply turning the disk 4 backwardly along the threaded-shank 3, the three segmental edges of the central orifice 12 of the disk 6L being adapted to engage the thread of said shank, both in turning the fastening-member from mounted position or place as Well as holding it in said mounted position or place.

The fastening member is of an extremely simple as Well as economical form, it being composed of but two parts that are readily made and put together, and the dished structure of the inner disk 5, together with the plain guide-hub 6, tornr an extremely convenient means for placing the fasteningmember on the threaded shank 3 when the latter is in place in the lapel l and ready for fastening.

The 'disk or member 4' of the fastening device,'being the outer one, it is obvious that it is not hidden or out of the Way of easy access to the user in the event it becomes out of order and needs attention, and its condition is always open to View as Well as to ready repair.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each,

' ready snapping into mounted position or de taining place and for reverse-turning from mounted-place along the thread of the said screw-shank, and an lnternal dlsk' armed with forwardly-bent peripheral anchoringteeth, and, also, with radial eXtensions alternating said teeth to each engage beneath an inwardly-turned flange on the said radiallysplit disk and, also, with a central orifice having a plain outwardly turned guide fiange'or hub through which latter the said screw-threaded shank freely passes for detainingengagement With the segmental edges of the said resiliently-orificed split disk.

WALTER H. VVILKENING.

by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

